Back Roads
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Back Roads: Breathtaking
Inspiration Peak, Urbank
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Back Roads: Threshtoration project
Atwater Threshing Days, Atwater
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Back Roads: Preserve & protect
You don’t need a spotting scope to watch swans but the high quality scope allowed us to look right into the gold and black eyes of a drake ring neck duck preening himself in the lily pads.
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Back Roads: Twisted memorial
If you think the sculpture at 5th Street and Highway 14 in Tracy looks like scrap metal that’s been twisted by a tornado, you’ve got the right idea. But there’s more to it than that.
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Back Roads: Bless the (iron) beasts
When Barb Becker was young, the church was in the heart of Moran Township’s prosperous dairy farming region. Those were less secular times than today and, for some, bringing their Farmall C and oat seed in to be blessed was as important as a visit to their banker. Who, after all, plays a larger role in the success of your crop? The Lord or the bank?
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Back Roads: Two miles past the parrots ...
Heading in a northeasterly direction toward Lewiston, travelers on County Road 29 might do a double-take at the huge bird cage and four parrots seen on the property of Jim and Jie Schloegel. But unlike most pets and cages, nothing is spent in food and little clean-up - although some maintenance is required.
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Back Roads: You are not forgotten
Private Frank X. Wochnick passed away on Dec. 14, 1918, and was laid to rest shortly afterward on the high rocky hill that was then the cemetery for the Swiss Catholic Church.
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Back Roads: Chocolate paradise
If your idea of paradise includes chocolate, then step into Mr. B Chocolatier in Willmar.
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Back Roads: Philosophy of repair
Nobody repairs anything any more. That, at least, is a sentiment you may hear from family or friends. But if Brent Lenz, who has heard it often, is standing nearby when it's said he'll point out that he repairs things.
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Back Roads: Baseball is a religion
Some people look at America's pastime - the game of baseball - as a religion. Then, it was only appropriate that a church was the setting for a presentation by one of the biggest names in Minnesota Twins history.
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